July 31, 2010

• Rolf’s Lake. Holton. Oxfordshire.

   

  Jinx Match 5

  Well it’s back to Rolfs again today for the 5th match of the Jinx Series . Once more Malc has organised a Friday Jinx 2010 Special Evening Match after the success of the one last year, Although the evening match doesn’t count toward the Jinx Series results a lot of the Series regulars were fishing it as well as a few guests. Unfortunately work has conspired to prevent me fishing it once more but hopefully the feed going in overnight should make for a decent match today . By the time I’d loaded the car it was starting to rain and by the time I was sitting down to breakfast at my usual stop in Battersea it was coming down in stair rods. It had stopped however by the time I got to the M40 and as I drove into the car park at Rolfs the sun was shining .
  
  It was quite strange to arrive at Rolfs and find an almost full car park as I’m normally one of the first to arrive, but with so many of todays anglers having fished Friday’s night match it was to be expected. I soon caught up with the previous nights goings on, and as usual it comprised the usual mix of success and failure. Malc had won the match from peg 8 and with me being in A section today I remarked that I would be quite happy to draw it today. PINK HAT wearers today are Clive and Ade(having missed the previous match) with what must be a first as they are together in The Pairs.
  

  

   Well with virtually everyone there early the draw actually started early !!!!!!!!! (quite scary unheard of even ). Into the draw bag and I opened my hand to reveal……….. Peg 8, hopefully a good omen for the day ahead .
  So with the gear loaded up it was off round the Little Lake to my peg. For company today I had Mat Edwards on peg 7 to my right, while to my left on peg 9 was Kev along with his partner Jean, so I was guaranteed a mid match cup of coffee (Thanks Jean ).
  

  

  Now I knew having spoken to Malc that he’d fed and fished tight to the bush during the night so todays plan would revolve around there and a line out front at around 6mtrs. Rigs were just two MW 0·4 Power Diamonds on 0·20 with a size 16 Guru QM1 for on the deck at 6mtrs, while the margin rigs were two 0·2 MW HC margins again on 0·20 with size 16 Guru QM1′s. I decided against setting up a feeder as I wanted to concentrate on just the 2 lines. Bait and feed were a combination of 6 and 8mm fishery pellets along with some sweet corn.
  
  So at 1pm John rang the fishery bell for the All-In. I potted out 2 large cups of mixed pellet and sweetcorn to 6 mtrs and fed a handful of pellet tight to the bush, then shipped out a banded 8mm pellet to the 6mtr line. Almost before I’d had a chance to start however Mat was landing his 1st feeder caught carp , only a small fish at around 5lbs but a decent start none the less.
  Well despite lifting and dropping the rig and flicking a few pellets out continually it was around 15 minutes before my float slid away for the 1st time. It was immediately obvious that it was A: a large fish and B: It was foul hooked. After around 2 minutes I was beginning to think that I might be in with a chance of landing it, however it was not to be as the rig came flying back with a scale the size of a 50p piece attached to the hook . Another 15 minutes passed before the float slid away again, not such a large fish this time but properly hooked which resulted in a nice plump Mirror of around 8lbs safely in the net to get me off the mark.
  
  The next hour however produced nothing more for me other than another 3 foul hooked fish, none of which yielded anything other than a scale to join the collection on the side tray, a small perch on double sweetcorn and a couple of roach. Matt however was still getting a few on the feeder and appeared to be steadily pulling away from me…….

  

   As I pondered my next step my mind was made up for me by the site of a tail pattern in the water by the bush were I’d been feeding. The problem is getting the fish out before they bury themselves in the snags underneath it. Fish to far out from it and you wont get a bite, so it’s a question of being brave and working your way in toward it till you get a bite. Inch by inch I got a bit braver, then the float buried. Maximum side strain saw the fish come out into open water, then the fun began. This was obviously one of the larger residents and it just plodded around for 5 minutes as I made a little ground on it…….

  

   Suddenly it popped up at my feet and I gratefully scooped it into my waiting landing net. A glorious Common and obviously a weigher I was more than happy to see it take the scales round to an even 18lbs . With the fish safely returned I edged the rig in carefully once more and the float immediately buried. An almost instant replay of the previous fish followed before I was once again sliding the net under another large Common and making my way up to the Weigh-Station only to find that this fish also weighed an even 18lbs !!!!!
  3 in 3 put ins was surely hoping for to much, but once more the float vanished and a spirited tussle ensued before the fish, another Common was safely in the landing net……
  

  

    Not quite the size of the previous two, this one was a mere 14lbs, but that was 50lbs on the board in around 20 minutes!
  However it couldn’t last and the next bite resulted in the rig being dragged through the snags before flying back completely trashed .
  Back in with the spare rig but the disturbance had obviously spooked them so I re-fed and took the opportunity to tie another rig. At this point I heard Malc pipe up from the car park bank “Oi Pete, You’re facing the wrong way” always the joker   he’d noticed that I was sitting with my back to the water as I made up the rig. By now Jean had supplied a welcome coffee  and it was back to business, but as I looked up it was obvious that things were picking up on the car park bank as looking up I could see Clive (peg32) Nick (peg29) and Malc (peg28) all playing fish at the same time……
  

  

   By now Mat was alternating between the feeder and his pole and I was convinced he was still ahead of me especially as he’d had a 19½lb Common on the pole. Peg 8 is one of those that stops you from seeing what’s going on around the lake and with very few people having a stroll today I assumed that most were catching. I was still getting bites, but the larger fish seemed to have disappeared, to be replaced by a bunch of psycho Mirrors that seem to fight like fish twice their weight and never know when they are beaten. In the last 1½ hours I did manage to get 8 of them safely into the keepnets but an equal number of them won the battle to stay out of them, but a decent Common weighing 12lbs did grace my landing net in the final 5 minutes before John rang the fishery bell for the All-Out at 6pm .
  
  Packing away my gear and chatting to Mat I was happy that I had caught a ‘Ton’ but still convinced that he’d beaten me, but he was adamant that most of his fish were small and he doubted that he’d got a ‘Ton’, though I was sure he had. Anyway with the gear back at the car park it was obvious that while a good few fish had been caught a few of the lads had struggled.
  
  So onto the Weigh-In and the 1st weight of note was Simon (peg 38) with 98lbs who’d finally managed to catch well in the final 1½hrs. However he was immediately overtaken by Ant (peg2) with 112½lbs. Fred (peg5) managed to top that with 115½lbs which would prove to be good enough for 3rd on the day . Mat did indeed have a ‘Ton’, his 1st in a Jinx Match recording 106½lbs but my fish weighed 128lbs for the A section win and 2nd overall on the day . Dave Collier (peg 11) weighed 100½lbs to take the win in B section, his 1st ever in a Jinx Match . Marcus(Budgie) won C section and took the overall win on the day with a fine 130½lbs, also his 1st ‘Ton’ in a Jinx Match . Al (peg23) weighed 105lbs which included a magnificent Common of 20½lbs which is the heaviest fish ever weighed in on a Jinx Match . Finally Clive weighed 99¾lbs to just miss the ‘Ton’ by 4ozs.
  
  So back to the hut where we all chewed over the day and waited patiently for Malc to sort out the day’s results…….

  

   So with that out of the way it just remained for The Minx to sort out who would have the honour of THE PINK HAT for the final match .
  Now of course there are 2 PINK HATS in circulation now and having missed out on a Full House by not getting Fred today (he’ll miss the final match as he’s away on holiday) she decided to put the peg numbers of those that were Minxed today into the draw bag and draw them, so Step forward Jon(Hatchye)Hatch  …………..

  

  and Nick(Monkey)Watkins-Price   ………….
  

  

   …………. who will be the lucky wearers when the final Jinx Match is fished on Saturday 21st August .
  
  As for me, I’ve got a busy weekend ahead as I’m back at Rolfs on Friday for Dave the Fish’s Invitation Match which is followed on the Saturday and Sunday by the Maggotdrowning.com Rolfs Pairs Tournament. Obviously a report of all 3 days will follow but it may be a couple of days after .

  OVERALL RESULT

  Position	Peg	Angler	Weight
  1st	15	Marcus Burgess	130lbs 08ozs
  2nd	8	Peter Morton	128lbs 00ozs
  3rd	5	Fred Parker	115lbs 08ozs
  4th	2	Ant Haywood	112lbs 08ozs
  5th	7	Mat Edwards	106lbs 08ozs
  6th	23	Al Loader	105lbs 00ozs
  7th	11	Dave Collier	100lbs 08ozs
  8th	32	Clive Pritchard	99lbs 12ozs
  9th	38	Simon Mound	98lbs 00ozs
  10th	28	Malc Doyle	94lbs 00ozs
  11th	31	Geoff Palmer	87lbs 12ozs
  12th	40	Steve Akal	85lbs 11ozs
  13th	10	Alex Clark       (guest)	85lbs 00ozs
  14th	36	Tony Roberts	73lbs 10ozs
  15th	26	Dai Thomas	68lbs 12ozs
  16th	29	Nick Williams	66lbs 00ozs
  17th	34	Steve Wilson	59lbs 12ozs
  18th	13	Dave Webster	54lbs 12ozs
  19th	17	Gem Doyle	53lbs 04ozs
  20th	22	Nick Watkins-Price	52lbs 08ozs
  21st	25	Ade Williams	52lbs 00ozs
  22nd	14	Paul Roberts	48lbs 08ozs
  23rd	18	Mitch Auger	48lbs 04ozs
  24th	19	Jon Hatch	44lbs 04ozs
  25th	4	Dave Moore	39lbs 08ozs
  26th	20	Terry Goff	18lbs 12ozs
  27th	9	Kevin Loveland	10lbs 08ozs

  Names in PINK are those that were MINXED

  SECTION RESULTS

  Position	Peg	Angler	Weight
  1st	8	Peter Morton	128lbs 00ozs
  2nd	5	Fred Parker	115lbs 08ozs
  3rd	2	Ant Haywood	112lbs 08ozs
  4th	7	Mat Edwards	106lbs 08ozs
  5th	38	Simon Mound	98lbs 00ozs
  6th	40	Steve Akal	85lbs 11ozs
  7th	36	Tony Roberts	73lbs 10ozs
  8th	34	Steve Wilson	59lbs 12ozs
  9th	4	Dave Moore	39lbs 08ozs
  Position	Peg	Angler	Weight
  1st	11	Dave Collier	100lbs 08ozs
  2nd	32	Clive Pritchard	99lbs 12ozs
  3rd	28	Malc Doyle	94lbs 00ozs
  4th	31	Geoff Palmer	87lbs 12ozs
  5th	10	Alex Clark  (guest)	85lbs 00ozs
  6th	26	Dai Thomas	68lbs 12ozs
  7th	29	Nick Williams	66lbs 00ozs
  8th	13	Dave Webster	54lbs 12ozs
  9th	9	Kevin Loveland	10lbs 08ozs
  Position	Peg	Angler	Weight
  1st	15	Marcus Burgess	130lbs 08ozs
  2nd	23	Al Loader	105lbs 00ozs
  3rd	17	Gem Doyle	53lbs 04ozs
  4th	22	Nick Watkins-Price	52lbs 08ozs
  5th	25	Ade Williams	52lbs 00ozs
  6th	14	Paul Roberts	48lbs 08ozs
  7th	18	Mitch Auger	48lbs 04ozs
  8th	19	Jon Hatch	44lbs 04ozs
  9th	20	Terry Goff	18lbs 12ozs

  

  

   

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